Refusing Earthworms

[natasha]

Just wondering if anyone has had a problem with an axie not eating earthworms?.
She use to love them and I have had trouble getting them until a couple of days ago when I bought a worm farm.
She ate a couple of small ones then threw them back up, on the second feed she held them in her mouth and kept spitting them out, but happily ate dried tubiflex worm when I offered it.
Should I just keep offering them to her? I normally feed her a combination of dried tubiflex, frozen bloodworm, pellets and occassionaly frozen beef heart.

 

[kim]

Do you know what type of earth worm they are, as I know that alot of axies wont eat red wigglers.

When eaten they produce a nasty taste that axies really dont like.

 

[kaysie]

Kim, only the picky axies. Mine eat them regularly. little pigs. They do, however, prefer to eat nightcrawlers.

 

[colin]

There is a species of worm with rings on it called a brandling worm Eisenia foetida and there isnt too many animals that i have had that will eat them

 

[john]

My axolotls will eat those. You have to starve them into submission though . Once they take them a few times, they'll keep taking them.

 

[natasha]

I don't know what variety they are, they are quite small and have small ringed bands around them, they are also quite red looking, maybe she doesn't like those ones. Can't get them anywhere else here.

 

[kaysie]

I'd bet money they're Eisenia foetida. Try going to your local bait shop and getting nightcrawlers if you can. If you cant find any others, try not feeding your axie for a few days and then offering the worms you have. Mine eat them regularly now, even though they used to spit them back at me.

 

[john]

<blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1>John Clare (John) wrote on Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 01:36 :</font>

"You have to starve them into submission though . Once they take them a few times, they'll keep taking them."<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>

 

[kaysie]

John, if you're going to tell people what to do, you should probably explain how to do it, as I have done.

Just clarifying what you said.

 

[john]

1) Starve the axolotl for a few days.
2) Give it a red earthworm.

If it refuses or spits it out, go back to number 1 and don't feed it anything else until it takes one. Only try this on a healthy axolotl.

Thanks for putting me in my place, Kaysie .